Boston, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the National Gallery of Canada announced this week that they have jointly acquired a copy of “The Clock” by Christian Marclay. The Los Angeles Museum of Art (LACMA) purchased an edition of Marclay’s …
BOSTOn (AP).- Boston is breaking ground on a new museum marking one of the most famous events in American history. Mayor Thomas Menino and Gov. Deval Patrick are scheduled at attend a groundbreaking Tuesday for a Boston Tea Party museum. An earlier …
BOSTON, MA (REUTERS).- Glass artist Dale Chihuly says his well of inspiration never runs dry, even after some 40 years pushing the boundaries of his medium. “Just working with the material brings forth a lot of ideas, in both the glass blowing and in w…
BOSTON, MA.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum announced the launch of a newly designed exploratory website. In addition to structural and navigational improvements, the museum’s new site aims to engage online visitors with meaningful exploratio…
BOSTON, MA.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum announced today that Dr. Oliver Tostmann would be named the William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Gardner. The Curator of the Collection is responsible for overseeing the historic colle…
BOSTON, MA.- The ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands, conceptualized and designed by architect Moshe Safdie as the first museum dedicated to the dynamic interplay between art and science, will open to the public on February 19, 2011. Designed as part…
BOSTON (AP).- The skyline of Boston shrinks away and before long is replaced by the blue-green orb that is planet Earth. As Earth itself moves into the rearview mirror, the moon appears, gray and foreboding, but it, too, quickly recedes into a tiny pi…
PORTLAND, ME.- Although John Marin (1870-1953) was regarded as one of America’s most important painters at the time of his death, scholarship and museum exhibitions to date have focused on his early work coloring popular understanding of his life&…
BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced that it has returned to the Museo Diocesano Tridentino (Diocesan Museum of Trent, Italy) an embroidered panel, the Entombment of Saint Vigilius, from around 1390-–1391. Commissioned…
BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced that it has returned to the Museo Diocesano Tridentino (Diocesan Museum of Trent, Italy) an embroidered panel, the Entombment of Saint Vigilius, from around 1390-–1391. Commissioned…
